Daily Archive: Thursday, March 2, 2017

Articles published on Thursday, March 2, 2017

Three estates to be kept

– Skeldon first on market Government on Tuesday decided that the sugar industry is not sustainable and cannot be saved as is; it will soon roll out a plan for the ailing sector that includes keeping only three estates and privatizing the others, sources say.

Lelon Saul

Lelon Saul new CH&PA CEO

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has confirmed that Lelon Saul will replace Myrna Pitt, who stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) in June 2016.

Allen confident Tigers can win tournament

Western Tigers head-coach Calvin ‘Flu’ Allen has declared that he is confident his charges can win the Petra Organization/Limacol football championships when they battle the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in the final on Saturday.

Bafflement

Dear Editor, I am somewhat baffled; your article on page 11 of yesterday’s edition ‘Airport cop arrested for stealing passenger’s phone’ states the perpetrator of the act on further interrogation told the police she handed the phone to her boyfriend who is a member of the GDF.

Reuters Entertainment News Summary

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.   Late actor Heston’s insult of judge helps upend murder conviction A decades-old feud between a Philadelphia judge and the late actor Charlton Heston may have helped a Pennsylvania man get his 1998 murder conviction overturned on Tuesday.

   Marlon Samuels

England star Mills among record number for draft

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – England’s Tymal Mills, who recently became the most expensive specialist bowler in Indian Premier League history, is one of 253 players entered for the 2017 Caribbean Premier League draft scheduled to be staged here on March 10.

 Peter Minshall

The Spirit of the World

Gaping mouths and ghastly sockets scream silently of nothingness, as the phantom heads float high, trailing suckered tentacles in all ghostly white swathes, sardonic symbols of a post-apocalyptic grim world titled “Sailors on an Exotic Isle.”

Failures for Gayle, Pollard but Kings advance

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Neither Chris Gayle nor Kieron Pollard fired but Karachi Kings still managed to stay alive in the Pakistan Super League with a convincing 44-run victory over Dwayne Smith’s Islamabad United in the first qualifier here yesterday.

Sea of fabrication

Years ago, when anyone wanted to get at (or get back at) someone for a perceived wrong or as a result of envy, the trick was to find whoever the worst gossip in the community was and start a rumour.